Working Toward the Mobility Society of the Future
Message from
the President
The Source of Our
Value Creation:
What Makes Us Toyota
Value Creation Story:
Working toward the Mobility
Society of the Future
Business Foundations
Corporate Data
for Value Creation
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Corporate Governance
Fundamental Approach
Toyota regards sustainable growth and the stable, long-
term enhancement of corporate value as essential manage-
ment priorities. Building good relationships with all
stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, business
partners, local communities, and employees, and consis-
tently providing products that satisfy customers' needs are
key to addressing these priorities. To this end, Toyota con-
stantly seeks to enhance corporate governance.
Corporate Governance Report
Securities Report >
Business Execution and Supervision
Toyota's Corporate Governance
Contributing to society through monozukuri (manufactur-
ing) is the basis of Toyota's corporate value. To enhance
its corporate value in the medium- to long-term, it is
appropriate for Toyota to be a company with an Audit &
Supervisory Board, where internal executives who have
been long engaged in and have deep knowledge of
manufacturing and outside executives who are capable
of providing advice for the creation of new value from a
broad perspective can participate in well-balanced
Toyota's Corporate Governance
Dismissal
Appointment/ Appointment/
Dismissal
Audit &
Supervisory Board
Shareholder's Meeting
Appointment/ Dismissal
Board of Directors
decision making at the Board of Directors' meetings.
With respect to its framework for executing opera-
tions, Toyota has been focused on ever-better car mak-
ing since the 2008 global financial crisis, aiming to
provide a full lineup of good quality, affordably priced
products in the right place at the right time while offering
products and services suited to customers in each coun-
try and region. To this end, following the introduction of
"region-based management" in 2011, the "business unit
system" in 2013, and the "in-house company system" in
2016, in 2017, Toyota further clarified that Members of
the Board of Directors are responsible for decision mak-
ing and management oversight and that operating offi-
cers are responsible for operational execution in order to
further accelerate the implementation of decisions.
Furthermore, in 2018, Toyota brought forward the tim-
ing of executive changes from April to January, in order to
further accelerate management oversight and ensure full
coordination with the workplace. In addition, Toyota trans-
formed the company structure into one that enables deci-
sion making that is both close to the needs of customers
and close to where the action takes place, by taking mea-
sures such as reviewing the corporate strategy function
and restructuring the Japan Sales Business Group into an
organization based on regions rather than sales channels.
In 2019, to further advance its "acceleration of
(Half of the members
are Outside Audit &
Supervisory Board
(including Outside Directors)
Audit
Decision making and management oversight
Members)
Supervision
Cooperation
Submit/Report
Operating officers
Operational execution
Suggestion
Executive
Appointment Meeting
(Majority of the members
are Outside Directors)
Executive
Suggestion Compensation Meeting
(Majority of the members
are Outside Directors)
management" and the development of a diverse and tal-
ented workforce, Toyota made executive and organiza-
tional changes as follows: 1. Executives are composed of
only senior managing officers and people of higher rank.
2. A new classification called "senior professional/senior
management" (kanbushoku in Japanese) grouped and
replaced the following titles or ranks: managing officers,
executive general managers, (sub-executive managerial
level) senior grade 1 and senior grade 2 managers, and
grand masters. With an eye to appointing the right people
to the right positions, senior professionals/senior manage-
ment hold a wide range of posts, from chief officer, deputy
chief officer, plant general manager, and senior general
manager to group manager, regardless of age or length of
employment, in order to deal with management issues as
they arise and to thereby strengthen their development as
members of a diverse and talented workforce through
Genchi Genbutsu (on-site learning and problem-solving).
In April 2020, Toyota consolidated the posts of execu-
tive vice president and operating officer into the post of
operating officer and, in July 2020, clarified the responsi-
bilities of operating officers. We redefined the role of oper-
ating officer to be members who, together with the
president, have cross-functional oversight of the entire
company. Furthermore, in-house company presidents,
regional CEOs and chief officers, as on-site leaders of
Changes in Governance Structure
Number of Directors (total)
Outside Directors
Executive Vice Presidents
Senior Managing/
Managing Officers
Operating Officers
Advisors/Senior Advisors
Audit & Supervisory
Board Members (total)
Outside Audit & Supervisory
Board Members
Executive Appointment
Compensation
-2010
2011-2015
business implementation elements, were given authority
and consolidated into the rank of senior professionals/
senior management. The roles of operating officers and
senior professionals/senior management were determined
where and as needed, and persons appointed as operat-
ing officers and senior professionals/senior management
changed in accordance with the challenges faced and the
path that should be taken, as the company exercises
greater flexibility than ever in appointing the right people to
the right positions.
However, because of the rapidly changing business
environment, Toyota now recognizes that there is an
increasing need for such executives to fulfill management
roles (related to people, goods, and money) together
with President Toyoda. Therefore, in April 2022, Toyota
again reorganized the roles of operating officers and
reestablished the position of executive vice president,
defining it as an operating officer who is focused on
business from a management perspective.
Toyota, based on its basic policy of appointing the
right people to the right positions, has been swiftly and
continuously innovating. We will further press forward
with the tide of such innovations, aiming for a corporate
structure capable of carrying out management from a
viewpoint that is optimal for a global company.
27 2011-2016: between 11 and 16 (temporarily increased due to the introduction of Outside Directors) 2017: 9
2013: 3
2011-2020: between 4 and 7
64 2011-2018: between 42 and 49
2011-2017: between 55 and 68
7 2014: 6
4 2014: 3
2016-2020
Current
2021-
April 2022
Position newly established with
revised roles (3 persons)
August 2022: 7
(Excluding the president and executive vice presidents)
2018: 9 due to organizational changes, July 2020:0
2017: Outside Members
accounting for half
2014: Corporate Governance Meeting
2019: Outside Members Compensation
accounting for a majority
2018: Sustainability Meeting
•Further clarified the responsibilities of Members of the Board of Directors as decision making and
April 2017
management oversight and of operating officers as operational execution
•Reduced the number of Members of the Board of Directors (including Outside Directors) to 9 (June)
October 2017 Changed the system of advisors and senior advisor system
Increased the appointment of people with high-level expertise from both within and outside of the
Company (the Toyota Group, people with technical backgrounds, etc.)
• Executive vice presidents, in addition to supporting the president, personally lead in the field as
in-house company presidents and organizational group chief officers
Newly established a fellow system to secure people with high level of specialist expertise and
expand the breadth of executive human resource development
Created a new classification: "senior professional/senior management," encompassing Managing
Officers, Executive General Managers, (sub-executive managerial level) Senior Grade 1 and Senior
Grade 2 Managers, and Grand Masters
•Discontinued use of the Field General Manager rank, shifting to Senior General Manager and Fellow
Integrated the roles of Executive Vice President and Operating Officer into Operating Officer
•Further clarified the roles of Operating Officers
Reorganized the roles of operating officers and established the position of executive vice president to
create a position for focusing on management perspectives with the president
Accounting Auditor
Sustainability
2007-2014: CSR Committee
Audit of consolidated financial
statements and internal control
Audit
over financial reporting
Business units
Head Office
In-house companies
Labor-Management
Council/Joint Labor-
Dialogue Management Round
Table Conference
Reduced the number of Members of the Board of Directors from 27 to 11
members (currently 9 members)
April 2011
Reduced decision making layers (discontinued the positions of executives
responsible for the operations concerned and introduced a two-tiered
arrangement of executive vice president and chief officer)
•Made flexible assignment of senior managing officers or
Audit
Cooperation Cooperation
Report
Supervision
Report
managing officers to chief officer posts (abolished the position of senior
managing director)
January 2018
Sustainability Meeting
(Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board
Members, including outside members)
Established the role of executive general manager
• Stationing of, in principle, regional chief officers in their respective regions
Established business units
January 2019
April 2013
Reorganized regional groups
Submit/Report
Internal Auditing
Department
Submit/Report
Disclosure
Committee
Appointed Outside Board Members
January 2020
April 2020
Changed the roles of officers
April 2015
April 2016
July 2020
Enhanced diversity (appointing non-Japanese executives and female executives)
• Established in-house companies, shifted from functional to product-based focus
April 2022
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